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Qualcomm will pay $16.3 million for 40 MHz of L-Band spectrum in the U.K.

The company plans to use this spectrum to test and further improve its MediaFLO mobile TV technology. DVB-H was recently chosen by the European Commission as the standard for mobile TV in Europe, so it is unclear whether Qualcomm has other purposes behind its attempt to bring MediaFLO to European markets.

Qualcomm has developed a chip that supports both MediaFLO and International Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (International ISDB-T) mobile TV standards.

The latter is a technology allowing users in countries like Japan or Brazil to capture free TV signals. According to Qualcomm, this will help operators to offer both free and paid TV services to their customers.